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Over the past three years, I interviewed 700 families across the U.S., asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. The kinds of problems people actually deal with are not covered by anyone but Oprah and Dr. Phil, which certainly explains why they're the cultural phenomena they are. Most families in the U.S. aren't doing too much for their children. They're doing...
...three-year term as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, is in his first year of teaching. The assistant professor of economics also heads the new course, Economics 1816, “Race in America.”As a scholar who uses mathematical models to study racial inequality, Fryer said his methodology is unusual, and his new affiliation with the Du Bois Institute shows “how wide-ranging and interdisciplinary the Institute is.” He said his research, which some would find “wacky,” will...
...still a lot of students on campus who don’t know what the Harvard Foundation is and what we do, so we are trying to reach those students,” said Styles. The Foundation was established in 1981 with the goal of improving relations among various racial and ethnic groups within the College community. But opponents of the proposal at the time said that existing institutions could best improve race relations and that such an organization would only aggravate racial tensions. Bok agreed to the Foundation’s creation, but only under the criteria that...
...less surprising—but no less galling—when politicians make half-apologies like the one the pope made. In the past two months alone, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Sen. George Allen of Virginia have used the half-apology to save face after making insensitive racial remarks...
...Fight Over Affirmative Action in Michigan The man behind the California racial preference ban is back at it again, this time in Michigan, where his ballot initiative could prevail over a strong, organized opposition